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FOX, FOX HARBOUR 355
London, where he was compihng a book on world radio and an article on the Battle of the Somme. D.J. Fox (let¬ ter, Apr. 1982). BGR
FOX, CYRIL JAMES, SR. (1889-1946). Pohtician; Jus¬ tice of the Newfoundland Su- preme Court. Born St. John's. Educated St. Bona¬ venture's College, St. John's. Fox read law with William R. Warren qv, became a solici¬ tor in 1915 and was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1916. He was first elected to the Newfoundand House of ^•^- ^^^
Assembly in the general election of 1919 as a supporter of Sir Michael Cashin qv in St. John's East. He was re¬ elected in the general elections of 1923 and 1924. In 1924 he became Speaker of the House of Assembly and held that position untU 1928. In that year he dechned an invi¬ tation to join Frederick C. Alderdice's qv Cabinet as Minister of Justice and retired from politics. During his years in the House of Assembly he served as Honorary Joint President of the Newfoundland Branch of the Em¬ pire Parhamentary Association and as a Governor of the Newfoundland Savings Bank. In 1925 he was one of Newfoundland's representatives at the Twenty-third Conference of the International Parliamentary Union of the World held in Washington. In 1928 he and Sir Patrick T. McGrath represented Newfoundland at the Empire Parhamentary Conference held in Canada.
In 1928 Fox was made a King's Counsel and returned to his law practice. He soon returned to government ser¬ vice as a Member of the Economic Commission of 1929 and as a member of the Commission for Consolidation and Revision of the Statute Law of Newfoundland. He also served as a member of the Council of Higher Educa¬ tion (1922-1934), as President of the St. Bon's Associa¬ tion, as a Director of St. Bon's and as President of the S.P.G. A. In 1944 Fox was appointed as a Justice of the Newfoundland Supreme Court. When the *National Convention qv opened in September 1946 Fox was its first Chairman. He died November 16, 1946. The Monitor (Nov. 1946), Who's Who In and From Newfoundland (1927; 1930?; 1937?). BGR
FOX HARBOUR, LABRADOR (pop. 1981, 280). A year- round settlement known locally as St. Lewis Bay, Fox Harbour is composed of widely separated groups of houses spread around the sheltered harbour of St. Lewis Bay, on the north shore of St. Lewis Sound, north of Battle Harbour qv and southeast of Port Hope Simpson qv, Labrador. St. Lewis Bay is depicted on maps as early as 1502-1503 as Ilha de Frey Luis, one of only ten named areas on the Labrador coast. Alluring Labrador (1980, p. 20) suggests that it was so named by Miguel Corte Real "as he searched the Labrador coast for his brother Gas¬ par, who was lost in 1501." In 1979 Fox Harbour was supplied mainly by Canadian National Marine during the navigation season from June to October (the harbour be¬ ing frozen from November to May), and by thrice- weekly air service. The settlement had a post office, An¬
glican and Pentecostal churches (the latter built in 1976), a five-room school and one general store. Peak popula¬ tion occurs at Fox Harbour during the winter: in summer many residents fish at their summer residences at Mur¬ ray's Harbour, Seal Bight, Spear Harbour and Petty Harbour. These summer stations are located in sheltered coves north of Fox Harbour on the coast, close to fishing grounds.
Fox Harbour, like Williams Harbour, Black Tickle and Battle Harbour qqv, has been a prime fishing centre on the southeastern coast of Labrador for over 200 years. Recorded history begins at Fox Harbour in the Eigh¬ teenth Century when its sheltered location, proximity to superb fishing grounds and seal-migration routes and its abundant supply of fresh water made it a desired location for the Enghsh-based migratory fishery. Fox Harbour was first seasonally occupied by the fishing servants of the major Enghsh merchant firms active on the coast in the mid-1700s, and it was eventually settled by fishing servants who had intermarried with Inuit famUies at¬ tracted to the area for trading purposes following its Eu¬ ropean occupation.
W.G. Gosling (1910, p. 385) states that Slade and Company qv "had stations at Battle and Fox Harbours, employing 16 men and taking 2300 seals" c. 1784. Cap¬ tain George Cartwright qv visited Fox Harbour in the 1780s and noted that it was in the hands of Noble and Pinson, a rival English fur and fishing firm based at Cha¬ teau Bay and Forteau qqv. It is likely that the Slade com¬ pany, which had been active in the Labrador cod fishery and seal hunt since 1773 (W.H. Whiteley: 1977) pre¬ dated Noble and Pinson at Fox Harbour and that the lat¬ ter firm in the course of its competitive expansion to the north moved into this Slade territory in the late 1700s. Nevertheless, Slade's enduring presence at Battle Har¬ bour insured lasting commercial ties with Fox Harbour. These seasonal occupiers of the site eventually gave way to year-round settlers, some of whom were probably fishing servants who had decided to make their homes on the coast.
Rev. Louis Noble (1862, pp. 194-195) was impressed with both the character of the settlers and the settle¬ ment's picturesque situation when he visited Fox Har¬ bour in the 1850s. He wrote: "The mouth of Fox Har¬ bour aU at once discovers itself, and lets us in upon a smaU sheet of water, not unlike a mountain lake with its back-ground of black, wUd hills. A few huts, a wharf, and fish-house appear upon the margin of the narrow peninsula that lies between the harbour and the bay. The people are pure Esquimaux and English, with a mixture from intermarriage. The patriarch of the place, perhaps sixty years of age, with his wife, and, I believe, the elder members of the family, are natives of a high latitude, and a good specimen of the arctic race. They are now mem¬ bers of the English Church, and for piety and virtue com¬ pare well with Christians anywhere.
"In the course of the afternoon, their pastor held di¬ vine service .... There were between twenty and thirty present, old and young, some of whom had prayer-books and responded."
Fox Harbour and Seal Islands were part of the Battle

FOX, FOX HARBOUR 355
London, where he was compihng a book on world radio and an article on the Battle of the Somme. D.J. Fox (let¬ ter, Apr. 1982). BGR
FOX, CYRIL JAMES, SR. (1889-1946). Pohtician; Jus¬ tice of the Newfoundland Su- preme Court. Born St. John's. Educated St. Bona¬ venture's College, St. John's. Fox read law with William R. Warren qv, became a solici¬ tor in 1915 and was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1916. He was first elected to the Newfoundand House of ^•^- ^^^
Assembly in the general election of 1919 as a supporter of Sir Michael Cashin qv in St. John's East. He was re¬ elected in the general elections of 1923 and 1924. In 1924 he became Speaker of the House of Assembly and held that position untU 1928. In that year he dechned an invi¬ tation to join Frederick C. Alderdice's qv Cabinet as Minister of Justice and retired from politics. During his years in the House of Assembly he served as Honorary Joint President of the Newfoundland Branch of the Em¬ pire Parhamentary Association and as a Governor of the Newfoundland Savings Bank. In 1925 he was one of Newfoundland's representatives at the Twenty-third Conference of the International Parliamentary Union of the World held in Washington. In 1928 he and Sir Patrick T. McGrath represented Newfoundland at the Empire Parhamentary Conference held in Canada.
In 1928 Fox was made a King's Counsel and returned to his law practice. He soon returned to government ser¬ vice as a Member of the Economic Commission of 1929 and as a member of the Commission for Consolidation and Revision of the Statute Law of Newfoundland. He also served as a member of the Council of Higher Educa¬ tion (1922-1934), as President of the St. Bon's Associa¬ tion, as a Director of St. Bon's and as President of the S.P.G. A. In 1944 Fox was appointed as a Justice of the Newfoundland Supreme Court. When the *National Convention qv opened in September 1946 Fox was its first Chairman. He died November 16, 1946. The Monitor (Nov. 1946), Who's Who In and From Newfoundland (1927; 1930?; 1937?). BGR
FOX HARBOUR, LABRADOR (pop. 1981, 280). A year- round settlement known locally as St. Lewis Bay, Fox Harbour is composed of widely separated groups of houses spread around the sheltered harbour of St. Lewis Bay, on the north shore of St. Lewis Sound, north of Battle Harbour qv and southeast of Port Hope Simpson qv, Labrador. St. Lewis Bay is depicted on maps as early as 1502-1503 as Ilha de Frey Luis, one of only ten named areas on the Labrador coast. Alluring Labrador (1980, p. 20) suggests that it was so named by Miguel Corte Real "as he searched the Labrador coast for his brother Gas¬ par, who was lost in 1501." In 1979 Fox Harbour was supplied mainly by Canadian National Marine during the navigation season from June to October (the harbour be¬ ing frozen from November to May), and by thrice- weekly air service. The settlement had a post office, An¬
glican and Pentecostal churches (the latter built in 1976), a five-room school and one general store. Peak popula¬ tion occurs at Fox Harbour during the winter: in summer many residents fish at their summer residences at Mur¬ ray's Harbour, Seal Bight, Spear Harbour and Petty Harbour. These summer stations are located in sheltered coves north of Fox Harbour on the coast, close to fishing grounds.
Fox Harbour, like Williams Harbour, Black Tickle and Battle Harbour qqv, has been a prime fishing centre on the southeastern coast of Labrador for over 200 years. Recorded history begins at Fox Harbour in the Eigh¬ teenth Century when its sheltered location, proximity to superb fishing grounds and seal-migration routes and its abundant supply of fresh water made it a desired location for the Enghsh-based migratory fishery. Fox Harbour was first seasonally occupied by the fishing servants of the major Enghsh merchant firms active on the coast in the mid-1700s, and it was eventually settled by fishing servants who had intermarried with Inuit famUies at¬ tracted to the area for trading purposes following its Eu¬ ropean occupation.
W.G. Gosling (1910, p. 385) states that Slade and Company qv "had stations at Battle and Fox Harbours, employing 16 men and taking 2300 seals" c. 1784. Cap¬ tain George Cartwright qv visited Fox Harbour in the 1780s and noted that it was in the hands of Noble and Pinson, a rival English fur and fishing firm based at Cha¬ teau Bay and Forteau qqv. It is likely that the Slade com¬ pany, which had been active in the Labrador cod fishery and seal hunt since 1773 (W.H. Whiteley: 1977) pre¬ dated Noble and Pinson at Fox Harbour and that the lat¬ ter firm in the course of its competitive expansion to the north moved into this Slade territory in the late 1700s. Nevertheless, Slade's enduring presence at Battle Har¬ bour insured lasting commercial ties with Fox Harbour. These seasonal occupiers of the site eventually gave way to year-round settlers, some of whom were probably fishing servants who had decided to make their homes on the coast.
Rev. Louis Noble (1862, pp. 194-195) was impressed with both the character of the settlers and the settle¬ ment's picturesque situation when he visited Fox Har¬ bour in the 1850s. He wrote: "The mouth of Fox Har¬ bour aU at once discovers itself, and lets us in upon a smaU sheet of water, not unlike a mountain lake with its back-ground of black, wUd hills. A few huts, a wharf, and fish-house appear upon the margin of the narrow peninsula that lies between the harbour and the bay. The people are pure Esquimaux and English, with a mixture from intermarriage. The patriarch of the place, perhaps sixty years of age, with his wife, and, I believe, the elder members of the family, are natives of a high latitude, and a good specimen of the arctic race. They are now mem¬ bers of the English Church, and for piety and virtue com¬ pare well with Christians anywhere.
"In the course of the afternoon, their pastor held di¬ vine service .... There were between twenty and thirty present, old and young, some of whom had prayer-books and responded."
Fox Harbour and Seal Islands were part of the Battle